Thriller and Northern Ireland since 1969
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containment
crime
Crime Fiction
crime fiction analysis
cultural theory application
Dead Man
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Erotic Return
European critical theory
Feminist Crime Fiction
fiction
form
Freudian Unheimlich
harry's
interdisciplinary study of Troubles fiction
IRA Leader
IRA Volunteer
Irish Masculinity
Irish Nationalism
Irish Nationalist Discourse
Irish urban representation
modalities
modality
narrative agency research
Northern Conflict
Northern Irish Society
Northern Irish Writing
Patriot Games
Political Unconscious
political violence studies
Pup
redemptive
Redemptive Modalities
repressive
Repressive Modalities
Resurrection Man
Shirley Robin Letwin
Social Totality
symbolic
Symbolic Containment
Thriller Form
Tribal Map
Product details
- ISBN 9781138383623
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 06 Jun 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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For the past 30 years, the so-called 'Troubles' thriller has been the dominant fictional mode for representing Northern Ireland, leading to the charge that the crudity of this popular genre appropriately reflects the social degradation of the North. Aaron Kelly challenges both these judgments, showing that the historical questions raised by setting a thriller in Northern Ireland disrupt the conventions of the crime novel and allow for a new understanding of both the genre and the country. Two essays on crime fiction by Walter Benjamin and Berthold Brecht appear here for the first time in English translation. By demonstrating the relevance of these theorists as well as other key European thinkers such as Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser, and Slavoj Zizek to his interdisciplinary study of Irish culture and the crime novel, Kelly refutes the idea that Northern Ireland is a stagnate anomaly that has been bypassed by European history and remained impervious to cultural transformation. On the contrary, Kelly's examination of authors such as Jack Higgins, Tom Clancy, Gerald Seymour, Colin Bateman, and Eoin McNamee shows that profound historical change and complexity have characterized both Northern Ireland and the thriller form.
Aaron Kelly is a Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature in English at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
